School-based Professional Development: School workshops cum Small Group Advisement

A Professional Development alternative to one-off workshops or lectures. One day or one-off assessment workshops have been the common mode of professional development. However, this mode does not provide teachers with time, opportunity and guidance to apply what has been taught. The Assessment Team is offering a new flexible PD arrangement for small group assessment advisement for schools who wish to learn and apply an assessment change. Topics may include constructing or revising rubrics, enhancing feedback practice, designing assessment tasks, etc. The new PD configuration, as opposed to a single one off workshop, could take the form of:

• An initial lecture/workshop to a large group of teachers on the basic concepts and practices of the assessment change/intervention.
• A subsequent series of 3 – 5 monthly meetings with small groups of teachers to design and apply the change/intervention. Each meeting should be at least 3 hours, and schools can decide how many groups of teachers should be involved.
• Finally, a facilitated presentation to a large group on the learning outcomes of the small group consultations.

Please contact Kelvin Tan at kelvin.tan@nie.edu.sg or Tay Hui Yong at huiyong.tay@nie.edu.sg for more details.

Here is a list of schools who have partnered us in this PD model:

Secondary Schools:

• Juying Secondary School (2018-2019)
• Bukit Batok Secondary School (2019)

Primary Schools

• Chua Chu Kang Primary School (2019)
• Tampines Primary School (2019)
• Woodlands Primary School (2019)